The National tribune., 1887-03-17
PERSONAL.

Department Commander Jerome Il. Burke Mt
Washington, has appointed on his staff Col. W. w.
Jackson whose articles in this paper on Southern
Loyasts" have attracted 50 much attention. Col.
Jackson is of the oldest soldiers ia the country
having begun his military career as a drummer
boy in the Black Hawk war at Fort Dearborn,
where Chicago now stands. He participated also
in the Mexican war; and mt the outbreak of the
belion was in business in Chicago. He Immediately
reported for duty, received a commission and
assigned to position the staff of Gen. 8. A.
Hurlbut with whom he served until 1853, when he
was commissioned to raise a regiment of loyal Mis-
sssippians an account of whose services has here
tofore appeared in this paper, the Of the reg
ment being the LIST Miss 3rCd Rifles. This was
the first and last loyal white military organization
raised in that State during the war.
Capt. James s. wiekoT, formerly Of Co. f, S9th
n. Y. has returned to his old home before the war;
and is now in charge of the Chancellor House at
Charlottesville, Va, where he will be glad to
meet his old comrades who may visit the battle
/ fields around Fredericksburg The Captain served
from first to last, and participated in % battles.
/ Ills postofice address is Fredericksburg, Va.
/ Capt. Luis r. Emilio, formerly Of the 54th
Mass, has returned from an extended trip
through the South during which he visited all the
battefeld5 and other memorable places in his regi-
ments service. 1t will be remembered that the
5fth the first colored regiment raised, and was
| led by the gallant Col. Shaw ia the desperate but
| fruilless attack upon Fort Wagner where Shaw
| and large number of the regiment were killed on
the parapets of the work. At OIustee, Fla, where
/ the regiment again suffered severely, Capt Emilio
| found the battlefield almost unchanged as the
quantity Of lead and iron in the trees in the neigh
! borhood made them useless for lumber. He was
received pleasantly by the Southern gentlemen
many Of whom had been engaged in the actions in
which his regiment participated. He has written
an admirable account Of the part that his regiment
took in the assault on Wagner, which appears in
the Republican, of Springfield, Mass.
III. s. Fullerton, HillsbOro, o., writes to correct
statement in regard to Gov. Foraker which ap-
peared in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE and says that
he is going to be re-nOminaed and reelected this
| Fall; that TIE Buckeye comrades are very proud
OF him. and if THE NATIONAL. TRIBUNE editors live
dozen years longer they will see him in the White
House. and can be assured that he will not veto
any dependent pension bills
The GAR boys ofWaynesburg Pa. elected one
of their old comrades, Robert A. Sayers, Mayor OF
| Burgess, OF that place. He was wounded and taken
prisoner June %, 1862, at Gaines's MILL Va. anC
was the first man Of the County to return from
rebel prison. After "a long illness from malaria
fever, he returned and served the balance of hi!
term. Comrade Sayers ousted March last from
the U. S. Revenue Service to give place to party
worker"
Comrade Jap Turpen has a rafting letter in the
Gazette Tribune, of Kokomo, Ind, on the Depend
ent Pension Bill. in which he pays his respects t.
L. 5. Bragg in lively way.